Mahr
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A mandatory gift from the groom to the bride upon marriage in Islamic cultures
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 182K
- ATAustria≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. 'alp'; 2. 'Weichselzopf'; 3. likely also spatial/occupational use
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mahr is read(measured from records)
Mahr is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English56%
A mandatory gift from the groom to the bride upon marriage in Islamic cultures.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German23%
1. 'alp'; 2. 'Weichselzopf'; 3. likely also spatial/occupational use
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
topographic name from Middle High German mer, mar ‘lake’, ‘marsh’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
mare, incubus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mahr in Arabic.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emil Mahrb. 1851DEGerman violinist
- Moritz Mayer-Mahrb. 1869DEGerman pianist und music teacher (1869–1947)
- Hermann Mahrb. 1874DEGerman architect
- Adolf Mahrb. 1887ATAustrian archaeologist and notable Nazi, Director of the National Gallery in Ireland (1887-1951)
- Alexander Mahrb. 1896ATAustrian economist (1896-1972)
- Kurt Mahrb. 1934DEGerman novelist (1934–1993)
- Beate Mahrb. 1950DEGerman politician
- Ági Máhrb. 1952HUHungarian actress
- Timothy Mahrb. 1956USAmerican musician
- Joe MahrUSAmerican journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,883 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,844 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 207 | #5,516 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 206 | #8,223 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mahr come from?
- 1. 'alp'; 2. 'Weichselzopf'; 3. likely also spatial/occupational use Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Mahr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mahr mean?
- In English, A mandatory gift from the groom to the bride upon marriage in Islamic cultures.
- In which country does Mahr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Mahr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahr.
- How common is the name Mahr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,831 people named Mahr in 2010, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahrThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mahr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.